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Petraglia, Michael D., K.A.R. Kennedy, J.R. Lukacs, and V.N. Misra."Book...

Bhimbetka represents one of the most important prehistoric rock shelter and cave complexes in India. More than 1000 rock-shelters and caves have been counted over an area extending only 2 sq. km, most...

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Hope, Theodore Cracraft, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph VII. Pillars in the...

A CLOSE examination of the different styles of ornament employed in the Colonnade will show both the remarkable versatility and fertility of invention possessed by the stone carvers in carrying out...

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"44.—Asbestos Cement Company, Ltd." In Model houses constructed in the...

A special feature of this house, erected by Asbestos Cement Company Limited, is a cuved double roof. Asbestos Cement sheet, which is so curved, eliminates all timber work in the roof. Asbestos is a...

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Girish Dariyav Karnawat, Shallon John Crasta, Siddhart Tandur, and Ritu...

These are the study model pictures of an ongoing project on board in Kerala. An attempt was made where in the sketches of various alternatives were directly extruded into physical models.

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Mukherjee, S.K.."B5: Art in the Education of the Adolescent." In Seminar on...

Those who are familiar with the work and experiments of Dr. Cizek, the father of Child Art will unhesitatingly agree that Art Education of the Adolescent or Art Education at the Secondary School level...

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Nandy, Ashis."Time Travel to a Possible Self: Searching for the Alternative...

Cochin or Kochi is one of the few cities in India where the precolonial traditions of cultural pluralism refuse to die. It is one of the largest natural harbours in India and has also become, during...

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Chauhan, Parth R..The South Asian Paleolithic Record and Its Potential for...

The Indian subcontinent contains a rich and continuous behavioral record of hominin occupation since at least the early Middle Pleistocene. All lithic assemblages demonstrate the presence of Lower,...

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Misra, V. N..The Pleistocene Old WorldMiddle Pleistocene Adaptations in India...

Lower Paleolithic research began in India in 1863, when geologist Robert Bruce Foote (1914) discovered a cleaver in a laterite pit at Pallavaram—a suburb of the city of Madras. In the next four decades...

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Bendre, N.S.."B13: Content of Professional Education in Art." In Seminar on...

1. Scope:The paper includes considerations on Painting, Sculpture and Commercial Art. Considerations on Industrial Art are included as far as principles of art are concerned with the subject....

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Anand, Mulk Raj."B8: The Place of Art in University Education." In Seminar on...

I propose that the proper subject for discussion under the caption “Art at the University Stage” in this seminar, may be more precisely entitled “the place of Art in University Education”.And, under...

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Haricharan, Smriti, Hema Achyuthan, and N. Suresh."Situating megalithic...

The megalithic burials of southern India—a wonderfully varied set of monuments—have long needed a chronology and a context. Broadly contemporary with the Roman and Sasanian empires, these dolmens,...

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Hebbar, K.K.."B11: Objectives of Professional Education." In Seminar on Art...

It is generally believed that artists are born and not made. But, however rich may be one's potentialities and natural aptitude, if one has to take up art as a career and life's mission, one needs...

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Dutt, Pulin."B3: Art in the Education of the Child." In Seminar on Art...

The present state of teaching of art in the primary school reveals that the true function of art in the education of the child has not been realised properly. The reason no doubt is a lack of true...

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Sehgal, Amar Nath."B7: Art in Social Education." In Seminar on Art Education,...

The term Social Education has now taken the place of Adult Education which was primarily concerned with the problem and the need for literacy drive. Social Education is accepted in a wider context than...

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"Residence for Kanubhai Patel."Journal of The Indian Institute of Architects...

Location of project: Ahmedabad. Year of completion: 1987 

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Cole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd.Photograph XII. View of the Kutb...

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D Asher Ghertner.Rule By Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi. OUP...

A new theory of the role of aesthetics and visual appearance in how cities and urban populations are governed, and how the urban poor contest their displacementThe first in-depth ethnographic study of...

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Venkatachalam, G."B9: Facilities for Advanced Studies." In Seminar on Art...

The problem of Art Education, especially of advance art studies, unlike the problem of academic or scientific education, is one of complicated nature, bristling with all sorts of difficulties. Though...

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Plates In A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon. Calculla and...

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Raval, R.M.."B2: Purpose of Art in Education." In Seminar on Art Education,...

Education, as we all know, has to play the leading role of bringing out that which is best in man for the benefit and betterment of mankind. This, perhaps is the only criterion to judge how a man ought...

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